Socrates would argue against himself to poke holes in his own line of reasoning. Why did he think this was important

Sometimes we convince ourselves that we are right and Socrates being an extremely intelligent person might simply come up with an idea and share it to the world and his fellow thinkers, but instead he thought twice and tried to disprove his own idea to see if it really was correct, original and going to be accepted.

to fit in with the new circle of friends that looks like to accept him, elias realized that he needs to abandon being an excellent student at his old school. elias does this because of conformity, that’s why he put forth little effort in his school work at his new school,